Quotes About Perspective

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?